Meet Catharine

​I wholeheartedly believe with empathetic and supportive guidance anyone can overcome great obstacles and reach the goals they envision achieving. I work from a holistic and intuitive framework to guide clients in spurring healing and change from within. ​I am originally an upstate New York native and worked in NYC for many years in social justice non-profits. My mental health career started on Rape Crisis and Suicide Prevention hotlines. I have been in the mental health field for 12 years.

I'm a queer therapist and near to my heart is my identity as an intersectional feminist. I currently work at Havn Collective, a holistic group therapy practice for the curious and courageous.

Therapy With Me

As a therapist I approach clients on a very real, authentic level. This thing called therapy can feel strange and I pride myself on having clients feel safe, grounded and able to bring out the weird, wild, and taboo in the therapy room. I have worked extensively with trauma and am an EMDR therapist. EMDR allows clients to re-experience or bring to mind traumatic memories without having the same emotional charge once felt. The clients I work with are some of the most compelling, intriguing, awe-inspiring people I know. I feel grateful to accompany clients on their journeys and witness positive transformations throughout life's ebbs and flows.

Let's work together if you are an adult experiencing depression, suffer from anxiety, or if you are recovering from sexual assault or sexual abuse. I work with clients who identify as LGBTQ, artistic types, highly sensitive, entrepreneurs, feeling different or “othered”, or perhaps feelings of being not enough or being too much.

What makes me human is my love and need for a good cup of coffee at the start of my day, uneasiness with profound change, and deep affection for my two lovely dogs Farah and Stamos.

EMDR

EMDR is a profound therapy modality that alleviates distress associated with unpleasant or traumatic memories. Traumatic memories are stored maladaptively in our brains and cause generalized or off set reactions, such as the belief "I'm always unsafe". EMDR helps those memories that are dysfunctionally stored to get processed in an adaptive way so the unwanted memories bear less emotional charge and are incorporated into the whole psyche.